Say goodnight
She waits for me to turn out the light
Really still
She waits to break my will.
Woah-oh
Yes, and I know the truth about you.
She cat.
And in the daylight
A blackbird makes a violent sight
And when she is done
She sleeps beside the one
Woah-oh-oh
Yes, and I know the truth about you
She cat.
Yes, and I know the truth about you
She cat.
Composed by U2 / Bono
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About "An Cat Dubh"
From the original U2 Album "Boy" (20 October 1980)
The title "An Cat Dubh" means "The Black Cat" in Irish. The song was reportedly written about a short relationship Bono had with a woman whilst split from his girlfriend (now wife) Ali Hewson.
Gavin Friday, a very close friend of Bono, claims that the song is undoubtedly about sex, while Bono says that the song conjures the image of a cat and a bird, where the cat kills the bird and then plays with it before sleeping next to it.The song is layered with several guitar parts, a vibraphone and a sustained guitar sound. This song, like a lot of the songs on Boy, are part of the concept of youth which was the given message and the theme which recurred on the Vertigo Tour. Bono says a lot of the themes on Boy and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb are co-related.
Live performances
The songs were played at most shows on the Boy, October, and War tours, as well as the first leg of the Unforgettable Fire Tour. Following that, neither song was played until the Vertigo Tour in 2005, where it appeared at just over half of the concerts on the first leg of the tour. It was played on one occasion on the second leg, but was subsequently dropped. [From Wikipedia]
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